Briefer Notices

BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury Jean S. Straub is the author of an entertaining as well as informative chapter on "Quaker School Life in Philadelphia before 1800" in the Pennsylvania Magazine, LXXXIX (1965), 447-458. This is doubtless a foretaste of the author's projected history of the Penn Charter School. (See our Vol. LII, 45.) Besides meeting and school records she uses short-lived magazines in manuscript carried on by the students themselves. * * * New Garden Friends Meeting, Avondale, Pennsylvania, celebrated on September 11, 1965, its 250th Anniversary, as it had its 200th in 1915. Now it has provided a 48-page account with pictures, program, etc. The first members emigrated en masse from a meeting of the same name in County Carlow, Ireland. Some later moved to North Carolina or Indiana and carried the name New Garden with them. For those that remained the generations of faithful workers since 1715 were appropriately celebrated on this occasion and by this publication (available from the clerk, W. Lewis Schrader, Ward, Pennsylvania). * * * The Indiana Historical Society at Indianapolis, Indiana, has now published Part Two of Willard Heiss's extension of William Wade Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Under the title Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana it abstracts the genealogical material in the records of twelve meetings in Wayne, Randolph, and Jay Counties. * * * Peter L. Van Santvoord wrote in Long Island Forum, XXIX (1966), 65-69, on "Gideon Frost, 1798-1880," a Long Island Quaker and founder of Friends Academy. * * * In Old-Time New England, LVI (1965), 49-58, Madeleine Osborne Merrill writes on "the Osborns and Their Redware, from South Danvers, Massachusetts, to Loudon, New Hampshire"—a Quaker family of potters, who produced redware for almost two centuries. See also the older article in the magazine Antiques, February, 1931, p. 123, on the Osborn Pottery at Gonic, N. H. 122 Briefer Notices123 Robert W. Doherty, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XC (1966), 233-246, contributes an article entitled "A Response to Orthodoxy: The Hicksite Movement in the Society of Friends." He notes the successes of the "orthodox" leaders in Philadelphia in changing Quaker emphasis upon beliefs, which would reduce the barrier between the Society and the world. The Hicksites were a combination of heterogeneous elements responding in a multiple reaction to their successes. Elias Hicks was not the real cause or leader. More attention is paid to John Comly, Benjamin Ferris, and other critics of Orthodox tactics and beliefs. * * * A handsome reprint of Samuel Tuke's Description of the Retreat, originally published in York, in 1823, was issued with an introduction by Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine in 1964 by Dawsons of Pall Mall, London (Psychiatric Series, No. 7). * * * The Journal of Documentation published (HI [1947], 107-125) as a supplement to Plomer's Dictionary "Biographical Notices of Printers and Publishers of Friends Books up to 1750," written by R. S. Mortimer. * * * The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society published (I [1914], 203-225) a Bibliography of Quaker Literature in the English language relating to Wales. It is arranged by authors who were Friends, mostly of the seventeenth century, some of them having migrated to England or to Pennsylvania. * * * A brief account of recent "Quaker Work in East-West Relations" appears at page 138 of Vol. XX (July, 1965) in Mennonite Life. The writer is Paul Lacey. * * * We note an essay by Maurice Mook on "Quaker Campus Lore," New York Folklore Quarterly (1961), pp. 243-252. The anecdotes are from Haverford, Swarthmore, Pendle Hill, and Westtown. * * * In Michigan History, XLIX (1965), 108-122, George S. May recalls "The Adventures of John C. Pemberton on Mackinac Island." This Quaker-born Philadelphia soldier served in 1840-41 as a minor officer at the Canadian frontier. In 1863 he became famous as the Confederate general defending Vicksburg. 124Quaker History An important historical study, "From Sect to Denomination in English Quakerism, with Special Reference to the Nineteenth Century," by Elizabeth Alio Isichei, British Journal of Sociology, XV (1964), 207-222, clarifies many questions of our past in the context of sociological parallels. She challenges Niebuhr's assumption of "simple linear progression from a church...